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" Wouldt 1hou havTbnck thy life agalnf I asked an a:od man; " Couldnt thou not grander ends attain, And better lifo'a wholo plan?' "'No, aon," ho an hi: " I rest content, And calmly wait the end. 'One life alono to man Is lent, To waste or wisely Rp"nJ. "If with the knowledge years bestow We started In the race, All plana miht meet with overthrow And tthame us with disgrace. "Ho combination man ran make Insures complote sucoe; The lucky winner takes the prize lie won by random guess. " I would not say chance rules bolow And nature shows doslgn; Lift is not like the dioo's throw. Lack follows laws divine. "Some men are born to grace a throne, Borne to a leper's doom; Tat equal light for both hath shone Their spirit to illume. My life ha? run through light and shade The end Is drawing near; - I long for rest all undismayed, And ask not back one year." Chicago Tribune. AN OCEAN CHASE. BY A DETECTIVE. "Aha! Burleigh, hero's a job for you one thnt'B got game in it, and a long ehaso, perhaps." It was tho chief of tho Scotland Yard detective force, who spoke, us ho stepped into the private ollieo. A knot of "halo follows well met," and I, an American, among the number; wcro engaged in a pame of whist. I throw down my cards. The chief handed me a telegram, which read as follows: Readino. Charles Burton, the infant heir of Beenham lode, was stolen from the lodge Inst nwhl, it is suorx-cted, by the nurse, in whose charge, it was plaood. tShe has dia .appeared, (She is tall; blonde hair, b'ue eyes; graceful and easy in her manners, and wears a p'ain, dark costume. Large reward for her capture, and the recovery of the child. Edward Fordagk. "Where is Beenham lodge I" I in ' quired, as soon I had glanced at the dis patch. "Near Reading." "Tho nurse will come to London with the child." "That is not so certain. This is doubt less a scheme to remove tho heir to the Beenham estate by some person or persons who are itching to obtain possession after tur Edward Pordago s death." "Then you think they will not run tho hazard of bringing tho child licref" "Certainly not." "With a flush mv mind was made up. I started out of tho ' ollice, and in a few minutes was in a train that was bearing tue at a rapid rate toward Heading. Upon my arrivul I secured a private , conveyance, and, after a drive of a few miles, was landed at tho entranco to tho lodge. I was met by a gentleman, who received me with much warmth and withal agitation when 1 informed him that I had been placed on the case. "The object of my hasty visit is to glean some of tho facts in the case, and to follow up any intelligent clew, if there be any. Was this your child that was stolen, Sir Edward?" "Bless you,' no! I am a bachelor never was married. Charles Burton was the child of my sister. I am his uncle, and by will have made him tho lineal male heir to the Beenham estates." "Have you any other relatives, Sir Edward" "Yes; another sister, a spinster, Miss Applebee Lowage, lives with me, and has been my housekeeper for many years. She has also managed much of my busi ness affairs of late, as I feel tho weight of years increasing upon me." "Who was tho nurse, and what was her name?" "My spinster sister's waiting maid. Tier namo is Percy Miss Jane Percy. A more docile, winning, and obedient ser vant we have never had in our employ. Charles Burton's mother died soon after Charles was born, and wo took the help less little infant to our home and nursed it with the tenderest care. Miss Percy took such an interest in the child that she was given tho sole charge, and seemed to love it with a mother s love, un, trust no harm has befallen it, wherever it has been taken !" "What is its age?" "About a vear." "What motive, think vou, was thero for the abduction of the child?" "None that I can see, unless tho ex pectation of securing a large reward for its return." "Then you do not suspect that a plot has been formed amoncr some branch oi vour relatives for the removal of the child?" Sir Edward stopped for a moment, as if a flash of new light had entered his mind; but he stamped his ponderous cane on the floor and indignantly re tried : "My relatives steal that poor, helpless babe! No. perish the very thought oi it. Not ono could so dishonor the namo of Annlebee or Pordase." As I arose to depart, an elderly lady of the renuine spinster typo walked gravely into tho room and glanced furtively at me as she advanced. " This is Mr. Mr." "Burleigh," I interjected, to help the old man's memory. "He's a detective sent down from London to discover our poor lost child, and be wants to get all the information he can. Sister, give him all you can. You know what Miss Percy wore and what clothing the child had on." "I presume, Sir Edward, you caa do that," she replied.- rather tartly, and seeming to shrink from having anything to communicate. Without wishiwr to force the matter, and making an apology for haste, I took my departure, and I was soon back in London. I went at onco to my room, and picking up a good-sized gripsack, threw in somo of my clothing, with tho expectation that I might bo required to miKO a long journey, uomg out juiaj tho street, I ordorod a cab and was driven to tho Inman line of stonmcrs, where I ascertained tho City of Richmond was expected to leave Liverpool early tho next morning. . "You have your passenger list, I pre sume?" I inquired of tho clerk. "Certainly." " Will you please allow mo to look at it?" " With pleasure." I glanced along the list of names, but could not sco tho ono for which I was searching. I handed the papor back and was about turninc away, when tho thought occurred to me that it would do no harm to question the- official a little further. " "Do you sell the London passage tick cts ?" "Yes. sir" somewhat sharply. "Do you recollect selling a ticket to a tall ladv with blue eyes, blonde hair, and attired in a dark costume ?" "Very distinctly. I was attracted by her beauty. She's a lovely woman." "And she purchased a ticket I" "Two tickets." "Two tickets!" I ejaculated with somo surprise, which drew the attention oi tho clerk. For once I had been thrown off my guard. "And she had a child with her in ner arms ?" "I saw no child. I took her to bo a younir lady who might not object to a good husband." "Strange!" "No, I don't think so. She never was a mother." "Perhaps not; but then" "Then what ?" " She might have somo oao else's child, you know;" and I hastened out of tho office and went to tho railroad sta tion, where I had the good fortune to catch the night express for Liverpool. So sure was I that I had got upon the trail of the child abductor, that I felt annoyed at every little delay along the route. My mind was in a gow of ex citement. Tho game was big, but shy and cunning. Nothing less than the bird in the hand would make me feel any certainty of success. I must reach Liver- Eool before tho City of Richmond took cr departure. If not, the pursuit would bo longer, and might end in failure even then. When half tho journey had been made, and the train was whirling through the darkness at a tremendous speed, there was a sudden stoppage that fore boded no good. We came to a dead stop. One of the drivers of the engine had broken down. The situation was interesting and rather exasperating to me. Some of tho passengers slept on obliviousto their surroundings. iNot so with me. I fretted and chafed with dis appointment. Two hours wore on. When at length the injury had been repaired, and the train started on its course, I had the st isfaction of knowing that I could not reach Liverpool before the steamer sailed. I resolved to take the chances, and so I curled myself up within my own thoughts. Just as I had feared, the steamer had sailed upon my arrival in Liverpool. My next thought was to cable to New York, giving a description of the woman and child, and have the former arrested. This would bring others into the case. I wanted tho honor and reward myself. Beside, after careful reflection, I thought I might be on the wrong scent. The personal description seemed to tally. ;iho two tickets, no DaDe in me woman's charge, and other circumstan ces led me to think that, after all, I might be mistaken. The thought of defeat drove ma to devising every scheme for pursuit. A new idea popped into my head. I rushed to tho ollieo of tho Guion line. "When does your first steamer sail?" I inquired of the clerk. 'To-morrow aitcrnoon.", "What's her name?" "The 'Alaska.'" "The 'Alaska,' eh?" "Yes." "She's a quick one?" "Fastest vessel afloat." "Do vou think Bhe can reach New York before the Inman's 'City of Rich mond,' which sailed this morning?" "I should think bo will prooaDiy ais tanco her by a day." , . "That would make a difference of over two days. "What of that, barring accidents?" Thrustinar my hand into my pocket, I said: "I want a cabin passage to New York." "Your name, sirr' "James Burleirh, an American de tective. anxious to cross the ditch and fret back home." With a somewhat contented spirit I went to a hotel and waited for the hour of the "Alaska's" departure. I felt that I was still in the race, but my competitor havincr such a start, while 1 was left nracticallv at the post, I was not so con- fident of winnincr. after all. Anyway, I was glad to Bail for the land of my birth. The novelty of having been sent to England and tne tjonuneni in ouest of some noted criminals who were wanted in tho States had worn away and I longed to see my friends once more. Nothinor of special note occurred dur ing the passage across. The noble vessel seemed as fleet as the wind. Day by day I studied with eagerness the log of the vessel to learn our rate of speed. Good fortune favored us with fair weather and sea. Upon our arrival at quarantine we learned that the "City of Richmond" had not yet reached port in fact, was not expected till the next day. i came up to the city, engaged my rooms at tho hotel, and made what preparations were needed for the execution of my plans. Lest tho steamer might arrive at night, I stayed that night at Statcn Island, to bo near at hand. The precau tion was unnecessary, as she did not ar rive till tho next day. Accompanied by the health officers and others, I was soon on board, and walked through tho saloon cabin with the non chalent air of a person who had no other business than to hum a tune or twirl a cane. There was the usual bustlo for disembarking. My eye could not catch the object of my search. Perhaps she was in her state-room. I would wait and see. The vessel was rounding into her pier, but still no person who could by any stretch of the imagination be said to re semblo the ono I wanted. I rambled backward and forward, and then ascended to the aft of the steamer. There stood a tall, shapely woman, with her back turned toward me. She was twirling her sunshade and seemed ab sorbed in gazing at the many sights that commanded her view. I ventured to approach the rail. My presence attracted her attention; she turned her face toward mo, there were momentary mutual glances. What a a handsome facel What a charming Stepping nearer, i venturea, in uu most polite manner, to speak : "Glad to get back from your loreign tour, I presume, Miss " " lienson Is my name. " 'Miss Benson, I took you to be an American lady. I am an American, re turning, after a long absence, to my na tive land." "I am so tired of this ship. How glad I will be when I step on shore again! It won't bo long now will it, sir?" " But a few minutes." "Pshaw I I've made a mistake," thought I. MThis lady hasn't blonde hair. Her eyes are more a steel gray than blue. Her costume is a steel-gray traveling suit. Then she is alone." But I thought I detected a decidedly English accent in her conversation. If sho were Miss Jane Percy, where could the child be?. If she had a com panion, male or female, where was that mysterious personuge! I must not be foiled at this stage of tho game. Once on land and swallowed up in the miel strcm of the masses, the child-stcaler and the child might soon lose their identity, I must act quickly. Confronting the fair woman, I said, in a stern voice : " Your name is not Benson. You are Miss Jane Percy, the abductor of the nephew of Sir Edward Pordage, of Been ham, England. I am a detective. You are my prisoner." Tho woman stood transfixed. Her form trembled her cheeks blanched at this sudden encounter. Although capa ble of calm self-possession, she was thrown oil her guard. Woman-like, her emotions overcome her, and she loll at my feet. " Where is the child r She hesitated, and f alteringly moaned "In the steerage." She conducted me there, when my eyes fell upon the heir of Beenham Lodge, crowing in the arms of a fat Irish nurse. I saw that my beautiful prisoner was comfortably provided for till the sailing of the next steamer, and had the pleasure of placing the young heir in tho arms of old bir Edward. The spinistcr sister, stung at the action of her brother in making the line of the Burtons, instead of tho Amolebees. the successors of his large estates, had concocted this plot to abduct the child. True to his promise, Sir Edward be stowed upon me such a handsome reward that, with ordinary caution, the wolf need never howl at my door. Ilnman Beasts of Burden. At last the problem of our school days is solved, says a Mexican letter, and we have discovered how Cortcz accom plished the overland transportation of that historic ncet ot ships, bunt on the coast and borne over the mountains to the lake of Mexico. Nearly all tho labor in this queer country is performed by man power, lew carts or horses being employed. Wo meet human beasts of burden carry ing wardrobes on their heads, pianos on their backs, or huge blocks oi building stone with apparent ease. Mexican In dians who transport goods from the inter ior are so trained that they will tire the strongest horse in equal time and dis tance, carrying from 100 to 150 pounds upon their backs. It is an actual fact that, after making a long trip thus Heav ily loaded, they fill their baskets with stones on the return, their strained and distorted muscles requiring the accus tomed burden. A Railroad Around the World. A railroad around the world, or some thing nearly of that nature, is evidently in the mind of one of our correspondents, who suggests the employment of our surplus revenue In building the line from Oregon to Alaska, and that then the Russian government would be likely to extend the line through Siberia to Pekin. This having been done, it requires not much further stretch of imagination to see, with the mind's eye, tho long rails stretching out under the shadows of the Himalayas until they make connection with the proposed line in the Jordan valley, and thence with the European system. acumijia American. The salo of second-hand food is an in dustry conducted profitably by a Garnian citizen of New York. He gatnera up that which is left over from meals at the large hotels, aud Bella it to the poorer clast at a uieo though iuodot profit. FASHION NOTES. English girls are wearing patent leather shoes, with uppers made of pale yellow kid. Twenty buttons is tho correct length in New York for gloves for full evening dress. Nearly all of tho wraps for children are modifications of the pelisse aDd pel erine combined. The bead embroidery on tho colored kid evening shoe is generally of the samo shade as the kid. Borders of fur are used to excess on dresses of all kinds, whether for the street or house wear. Bead necklaces are again fashionable- provided the beads are handsome and odd-looking or quaint. Taffeta glace, plain and brocaded, is the silk for early spring and next sum mer's full dress wear. For little boys there are soft berets trimmed with ribbons, or large fur hats of tho mountaineer shape. a Ash, gray, ruby, and olive are the fa vorite colors for dressy velvet reception and opera cloaks and mantles. Neck chains are altogether out of fash ion, and women who have handsomo ones aro converting them into bracelets. Plush is coming steadily back into favor. Worth has just made a dress for the Princess of Wales and another for the Queen of Portugal, both trimmed with plush. Fur trimmings are fashionablo this season, not only for street garments, but for house dresses, for matinees, for tea gowns, for robes de chambre, and for evening toilets of satin or velvet. Pressed leather with colored fruits and flowers and applied silver ornaments is used for letter-cases, portfolios, memo randum books and card -cases. Soft buck skin is preferred for purses in which to carry coins. Persian shawls p-ith an elaborate silk design on a novel ground aro cut up into visites, and their hne coloring produce an effective wrap for the carriage and for evening wear. Chenille of all tho colors in the pattern makes an appropriate trimming of fringe. An unusually larjre amount of yellow is worn for evenings. Deep yellow and canary color are not fashionable, but pale primrose and delicate lemon are used. The material, tulle over satin, is generally looped with bunches of roses, feathers, or bows of satin ribbon. A Swiss girdle of velvet pointed above and below, behind and in front, is worn with a pointed yoke, and pointed cuffs to match, on light cashmere and Surah dresses. 1 oung girls wear a lull gatn. ered skirt with such a dress and put bands of the velvet straight around the skirt. Pale pink is a favorite color for bon nets for evening wear. The prettiest of these are made of the most delicate shade of pale pink velvet, have a niching or plaiting of real lace bordering the front, and a cluster of dainty pink ostrich tips on one side. Strings of palo pink rib bon velvet tie beneath the chin. Ottoman silks of changeable hue and brocaded like embroidery with threads of silver are gold, aro fashionable for the bodice and train of evening dresses. Tho front of the waist and skirt is covered with Bretonuo lace laid on satin of a deeper color than the Ottoman silk, which tho wearer finds becoming. Monsters of the Deep. A thrasher shark caught off the New England coast recently measured over fifteen feet in length. It stove in a plank of tho dory, nearly upsetting tho boat, and destroyed a net valued at $500. A costly catch. The shell of a fossil turtle of a tertiary time unearthed in India and placed in tho British museum, was nearly nine feet in length and twenty-seven in width. Its feet were as largo as those of a rhinoceros, and when alive tho animal must have been over twenty feet long and havo weighed several tons. Tho largest living animal is the rorqual whale, one hundred and two feet in length; the smallest, the amoeboid forms. Whales and elephants live to tho greatest age, 130; May flies tho shortest, only a few hours. The most intelligent of the lower animals, ahead even of the Austra lian bushtuen and others, are the ants. The contents of a shark caught at Vir ginia, Flu., show that these animals are valuable scavengers. The items were as follows: one complete horn of an ox, with part of skull attached, three hoofs, two tomato cans, a quantity of old rope, twenty-seven crawhsh, and the remains of a part of a horse. A slaughter house in the vicinity was the explanation. Among tho deep sea fishes one has been found, the Bathyophis ferox, living oil tho Australian coast, at a depth oi threo and a half miles. It was totally blind, but provided with oval luminous spots along its lower surfaco, and on the head. These are supposed by some natu ralists to have as much tho functions of eyes as those of the mollusks. Large fishes are nearly always accom panieu by the remora, a fish that has t sucking disk upon its head. When tired they turn over on their backs and attach themselves, and are thus carried along by tho fish. The remora of the sword-fish is reinoropsis brachypterus, that of the spear-fih is rhombochirus ostcochir other kinds are found upon sharks, tur ties, and even on the sheepshead. There was a young man out in Ari zona who once declined a pressing mvi tation to fuvor a select company with song. "Oh, really, you must excuse me," he said. "I tell you I can't sin I don't come of a singing family. Why there was my old father: ho used to try 'Ulu Hundred,' out no had so little eur for music that he never got any more than uinety out of the tune." Buflubt THE NATIVES OF ALASKA. MODES Or LITE OF THB ALEUT J. AMERICAS Description of Our Subject In th Alnkan Fnr Inland A Ilace that 1 Hying Out. Hon. Louis II. Kimmell, ,of Lafayette, Ihd., government agent at St. George's island, Alaska, says in tho Indianapolis Journal: "The natives of Alaska subsist on seal meat, the meat of the sea lion and on gulls' eggs. In June and July the island is literally covered with gulls. They lay creat Quantities of etrcrs, which are gath ered by thousands. The eggs are palata bje when fresh, but the natives aro not particular in that sense. If they are over ripe or have chicks in them they are pre ferred, being then used in a sort of ome let, which thev consider their choicest dish. So with the meat of the seal and the sea lion tho stronger it smells the better they like it. Gathering gulls' eggs looks hazardous, but the natives say there has never but one accident producing death occurred to any ono engaged in it, Two men, or as often a man and woman, tro tocether. takinar with them a lone rope. One. lviner down with his feet braced against the solid earth or a stone, holds one end of the rope, while the other ae scends sometimes near 1,000 leetoverine sheer face of a cliff, and then, swinging from side to side, crathers the eggs. The accident occurred through a native going out alone and fastening the rope to a stake or stone. He was found dead at the foot of a cliff, the rope broken. The breaking of the rope was credited to the blue foxes, who were charged with nav' tng gnawed it ir two. Each winter tne Aleuts trap from 1,500 to 3,000 of these foxes, for which tho company pays fifty cents each. The skins, cured, readily bring $8 and $9 apiece. " The Aleuts have no great variety oi amusements. They pitch half-dollars, and are expert at it. They also play ball. There are no rules in the game, which appears to be nothing more than knock about. As there is no timber on tho island not a tree there is no uniformity in their clubs, anything goes, any kind of a stick or a seal rib. They are intensely fond of cards, and are always playing a Russian card same, which I do not pre tend to understand, never having tried to learn it. A while ago they were about at their wits' end to continue their card playing. Their packs were about played out, the spots worn off. They bad seen me drawing and coloring, and came with their well-worn cards to put new spots on them. It wouldn't do for the ladies here to see the waste of sealskins that I have seen to see the Aleut women in their fur clothes made of pup seals, w hich are finer, but, because of their size, not as valuable as the sealskins of commerce. "They do not estimate things as we do, those misguided Aleuts, and they actually prefer bright calicoes and brass jewelry to sealskin and pure gold. Men and women are fond of dancing, the women especially. Their dances are un couth and barbarous, but their waltzing is really exceedingly graceful, and they like to dance every Sunday afternoon nffnr finminif from their Orpftlv clianel. They are indebted to tho Russian sailors and soldiers for their waltz, as they are for their religion. Civilization has al most done for them as it has done lor tne Bandwich Islanders. There is no leprosy amonor them, but thev have scurvy, and they have loathsome skin diseases. They have a glandular swelhng m tho neck, which seldom loaves them without a scar. Speaking of dancing, Christmas, in tho Greek church, according to the Russian calendar, which is old style, comes twelve days later than with us. Last vear they had permission to use the gov ernment house, and beginning with their Christmas, they danced every night for two weeks. Thev are inordinate tea drinkers : that, too, they learned of the Russians, and they keep the tea Keuie on dav and nisrht. That is the strongest beverage they have, as not a arop ox spirits is allowed by tho government on the island. Under tne uussians thev had plenty of whisky, 'vod ki' as tho Russians and Aleuts call it, and they have no good will to ward this paternal government ior ac privinc them of it. Tho men, generally, are about five feet two inches in hoicht : the women shorter. It is a mistake to suppose them similar to our Indians. They are not copper-colored. Their fea tures are Mongolian: they have nigu check bones, broad noses, and slant eyes. Some of them are dark, while others have skins much like the Chinese. The effort of the company to educate their children is not likely to come to much. The education is compulsory and in Eng lish, but even after the children have learned to read and have left school they have refused to read or speuk a word of English. In consequence of their dirty way of living and their generally diseased condition, they die young. The men seldom live to be fifty years old ; the women live somewhat longer. They aro married in the Greek church, but tho marriage tio is hardly observed at all. We keep them all together upou the island and in frame huts, their under ground houses having been destroyed on account of their filthiuess and to get rid of the domestic animals, with which they fairly swarmed. All tho guns on the island are in charge of tho govern ment agent, and never more than three natives at a tiuio aro allowed to havo guns." "When in society never talk of your self." is the injunction of an authority on etiquette. That is, of course, you should talk about other people. Lowell Uxtuan. Miss Alcott says "she has fallen in love with great many pretty girls in her life, oi) never once the least bit with wav,' Just so with us. Huston J'ost, LOVE'S REQUEST. Dear heart, when I am dead, And o'ver my grave the lowly grassea creep; When birds unheeded sing above my head, And fail to wake me from my dreamlaet sleep; I would not have you sorrow o'er my rest, And monrn with hopeless passion in your breast. When joyful Spring returns With myriad buds and blossoms in her train; Wben o'or the fields the lilies' watchflr burns, And violets blossom, wet with April rain; I would not from your eye hare tears to fall, Because, dear one, I cannot see it all. And when the birdi again With music gladden all the summer day, As if their little hearts ne'er folt a pain; When all the earth with life and song is gay; I would not have your young heart sorrowing Because I cannot hear the glad birds sing. I would not nave the earth This beautiful, bright earth, where for us two Bo many joys have had their happy birth, So much of beauty drifted to our view Lose for thy heart one charm it held of old, Because my heart is passionless and cold. Dear friend, I would not ask That thoughts of ma forever fill your mind, I would not on your life impose the task, Mid all earth's brightness and its joy, to find Only dark shadows, sorrowing and woe Ah I no, dear one, I would not have so. But when the day is done. And all its heart-aohes and its cares laid by; When from the west slow sinks the setting sun, And evening's early stars are in the sky; Should you look upward to tho world of air, And breathe my name in some half-whisper, ed prayer Or, when your feet were free To wander to the low mound where I sleep, If you should come and calmly think of m It seems that in my slumbers cold and deep, rd know that you were standing by my side, And in my inmost soul be satisfied. J. & Cutler, in Boston Tranteript. HUMOR OF THE DAY. A young lady of this city, who haa a girl in Warren, and one in Corry, ana another in Meadville, may be said to ba already conducting a circuit court. Derrick. 'Dig graves for old follies anderro," says Ella Wheeler. That's the way to do, dear Ella; but wnere can you ges enough cemetery room for all the corpses! Courier-Journal. An exchange gravely propounds the following conundrum: "Why are mules said to be stubborn?" The only reason we can think of is because they are. Burlington Fret Press. Mrs. Alexander Hamilton is credited with being tho first to introduce ice cream into American history. We rather surmised there was a woman at the bot tom of it. Statesman. Zadkiel's almanac for 1884 contains no ominous events for the United btates. Zadkiel evidently thinks that American leap-year privileges will bring trouble enough for one country. Philadelphia Press. "Freddie, did you go to school to day?" "Yes'm." "Did you learn any thing now?" "Yes'm." "What was it, my boy?" "I got on to a sure way of frnttin' out for an hour by sauffin' red ink I " .. ir ij- 3 r . up my nose." uaTyuru.iuu.niM. ThA nen mav be mfchtier than tne sword, but the limberger cheese is stronger than both of them put together. We have been told of a piece of limberger which was thrown in the river, and which calmly turned around and began to swim up stream. Blixard. A leap-year society, for the protection of young men, is about to be organized. Many a young man whose mother would not board himself and a wife will this year bo lassoed by some ardent young woman and dragged down to matrimony. The society cannot get to work a mo ment too soon. Courier-Journal. We sat beside the glowuig tire, The hour was growing lata, I turned and to my heart's desire Baid: "How you fascinate." And then she said, with smile benign: 'With flattery nave aone: I cannot fascinate or nine liut I can fascinate one." Kvansville Argus. Abe, acd four, wanted his mother to let him make a lunch-bag for lumseii. She gave him the necessary material, and when it was finished found he had left several small holes in the bottom of the bag. When asked the reason oi tnis ado replied: "It's to let tho crumbs froo. It's such a bover to turn the bag inside out every time, and now they win tum ble out themselves. Harper's liatar. Why He Had iveyer fceen mo nins. In Bavaria, says the Philadelphia Press, it is illegal to criticise, even in a friendly spirit, the actions of the king. Soon after the termination oi uierntucu Gcrman war, a story was told of a meet ing in the streets of Munich between the king of Bavaria and a wounded soldier, during which the king, finding that he was not recognized, expressed his sur prise. "How could I know your majes ty?" said the soldier, in explanation. You never go' o the army, and 1 never go to tho play." To the publication of this anecdote may probably be attributed tho determination taken by the king not to tolerate remarks of any kind on his private movements. 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